Support for the gay community is higher than ever beforeāa recent Gallup poll shows that 55 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, compared to just 27 percent in 1996. With Pennsylvania and Oregon recently joining the growing list of states to overturn bans on gay marriage, the campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality is continuing to gain steam.
In honor of Pride Month, NerdWallet crunched the numbers to find the most LGBT-friendly cities in the U.S. We considered the following factors in our analysis: